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I have been pondering this issue myself and have thought using a<br>combination of historic:era (Mesolithic | Neolithic | Bronze | Iron |<br>Roman | Saxon | Norman | Middle Ages | ...) for objects with era based<br>timing and/or more date specific where appropriate.</blockquote>
</div><div><br></div>I have had a first go at putting together a scheme on a wiki page (<a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Historic_Britain">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Historic_Britain</a>), along with a 'todo' list of things that will need to happen for this to take off (in particular I think we will need some tools to make it easy to add extra information).<div>
<br></div><div>I would welcome thoughts on the proposed tagging scheme, because in doing it I realised how shaky some of my knowledge of UK history is.....</div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Another area that has been murdering grey-matter is change of function,<br>
for example a Saxon Monastery, built say 6th Century, swallowed by<br>
Glastonbury Abbey 11th Century, became a Manor in the dissolution<br>
then a hospital/convalescence home for WW1, Military headquarters in<br>
WW2, a hotel in the 1960s and now luxury apartments.<br>
<br></blockquote><div>I think if this is the case we should use multiple values for the civilization/period/era tags, with a suitable separator (comma would do me), then we can just select for any tag containing 'roman' and put it in the roman map. </div>
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I would definitely be interested in such a map, I would even be happy<br>
to contribute my time to it's development<br>
<br></blockquote><div>Excellent! - Please feel free to have a go at the wiki page I have started - once we are heading to convergence on what should be done, we can go through the todo list to see who would like to do what! </div>
<div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div><br><br>Graham. </div><div><br></div></div>-- <br>Graham Jones<div>Hartlepool, UK.</div><br>
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